System and method for determining an objective measure of human quality of life

Abstract

An objective measure of human QOL is determined by a QOL quantification system. The QOL quantification system comprises a QOL rules engine, a QOL measure datastore, a score data archive, a user computing device, and a network. The QOL measure datastore comprises quantifiable measures of QOL of a QOL factor. The QOL rules engine comprises instructions for receiving user data indicative of a plurality of attributes of a selected QOL factor of the user, obtaining measures of QOL from the QOL measures datastore associated with the selected QOL factor, evaluating the user data against the QOL measures of the selected QOL factor, determining a user score indicative of the QOL of the selected QOL factor of the user, storing the user score in the score data archive, and comparing the user score to a score stored in the score data archive. The QOL rules engine may also suggest change options to one or more QOL factors to improve the user score. The suggested change options may be presented as an ordered listed organized by a relative cost benefit measure.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A Quality of Life (“QOL”) quantification system comprising:
 a QOL rules engine; 
 a QOL measure datastore, wherein the QOL measure datastore comprises quantifiable measures of QOL factors; 
 a change option datastore; and 
 a QOL score data archive, wherein the QOL score data archive comprises QOL score data for other users; 
 wherein the QOL rules engine comprises instructions for:
 receiving user data corresponding to a selected QOL factor of the user; 
 obtaining measures of QOL from the QOL measure datastore that correspond to the selected QOL factor; 
 evaluating the user data against the QOL measures of the selected QOL factor to determine a user score indicative of the degree of quality of the selected QOL factor of the user; 
 receiving at least one change option selected from the change option datastore; 
 applying the at least one selected change option to the selected QOL factor; and 
 determining an enhanced user score after application of the at least one selected change option. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the at least one selected QOL factor is selected from the group consisting of sleep, relationships, mental health, nutrition, fitness, physical appearance and physical health. 
     
     
       3. The system of  claim 1  wherein the measures of QOL are selected from the group consisting of sleep measures, relationship measures, mental health measures, nutrition measures, fitness measures, physical appearance measures, and physical health measures. 
     
     
       4. The system of  claim 1  wherein the selection of the at least one change option is received from a user computing device operated by a user. 
     
     
       5. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for selecting the at least one change option from the change option datastore. 
     
     
       6. The system of  claim 5 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for:
 determining, for each of the at least one selected change options, a cost benefit measure indicative of a unit of improvement to the user score to be derived from an identified change option to a cost of implementing the identified change option; and 
 providing the user an ordered list of the one or more identified change options organized by relative cost benefit measure of each of the one or more identified change options. 
 
     
     
       7. A Quality of Life (“QOL”) quantification system comprising:
 a QOL rules engine; 
 a QOL measure datastore, wherein the QOL measure datastore comprises quantifiable measures of QOL factors; and 
 a QOL score data archive, wherein the QOL score data archive comprises QOL score data for other users; 
 wherein the QOL rules engine comprises instructions for:
 receiving user data corresponding to a plurality of QOL factors of the user; 
 obtaining measures of QOL from the QOL measure datastore that correspond to each of the plurality of QOL factors; 
 evaluating the user data against the QOL measure of each of the plurality of QOL factors to determine a composite user score indicative of the QOL of the user; 
 receiving at least one change option selected from the change option datastore for a QOL measure selected from the plurality of QOL factors; 
 applying the at least one selected change option to the selected QOL factor; and 
 determining an enhanced composite user score after application of the at least one selected change option. 
 
 
     
     
       8. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the plurality of QOL factors is selected from the group consisting of sleep, relationships, mental health, nutrition, fitness, physical appearance and physical health. 
     
     
       9. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the measures of QOL are selected from the group consisting of sleep measures, relationship measures, mental health measures, nutrition measures, fitness measures, physical appearance measures and physical health measures. 
     
     
       10. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the selection of the at least one change option is received from a user computing device operated by a user. 
     
     
       11. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for comparing the composite user score to a score stored in the QOL score data archive. 
     
     
       12. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for comparing the enhanced composite user score to a score stored in the QOL score data archive. 
     
     
       13. The system of  claim 7 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for selecting the at least one change option from the change option datastore. 
     
     
       14. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for comparing the user score to a score stored in the QOL score data archive. 
     
     
       15. The system of  claim 1 , wherein the QOL rules engine further comprises instructions for comparing the enhanced user score to a score stored in the QOL score data archive.